Butchers in Italy have pinched the record for creating the
world’s longest sausage from their Romanian counterparts, creating a banger more than half a kilometre long.

What a banger: Creation of the record-breaking longest sausage (Pic: CEN)

The 594-metre long sausage took ten cooks from Penne, a small town in the centre of the country, three hours to craft.

More than half a tonne of meat – weighing exactly 1,300 lbs – was used to stuff the skin for the longest-ever sausage, which was produced in the main street.

It was officially measured at 597.8m and was declared to have easily beaten the previous Romanian record-holder, whose sausage was only 392m in length, according to the Guinness Book of Records.The giant sausage was cut up into 7,000 ordinary-sized bangers, stuffed in sandwiches and sold to the spectators to raise money for local charity Caritas.

Head chef Alberto Della Pelle said: ‘We are very proud to have created a new world record with such delicious food.’

Italy’s getting something of a reputation for smashing culinary world records – in 2008 the town of Mottola, Puglia, produced in the world’s largest flat bread focaccia pizza, covering 297 square metres.

And, in 2004, Mottola made the world’s longest sandwich, which spanned 634.5 metres in length.